The Catholic Church is now rejecting the fact that condoms helps to prevent the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Their proof: a rise in condom use, yet a rise still in STDs.
Did it ever cross their mind to check the studies and see if those using condoms are not necessarily the ones contracting STDs? Did it ever cross their mind that a rise in promiscuous and unprotected sex might be the cause of a rise in STDs?
If they reject condoms because they believe that its use may lead to promiscuous behavior because a man may feel protected against disease and unwanted pregnancies and thus goes on a sexual rampage with inumerable women, that may be acceptable. But to blame condoms, the thing itself, and saying that it does NOT prevent disease is unacceptable. I understand they want to reject any method of birth control outside of abstinence. I understand they want to curb human promiscuity which may lead to the spread of disease and unwanted pregnancies, and that may be their dogma.
But to reject an aid in the prevention of the spread of disease and blame the thing itself as being a symbol of promiscuity (and thus spread of disease) is beyond me. The thing itself is not to blame, only the man or woman who would do something to endanger or compromise themselves or others is.
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